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Your health

Kindness is the key to health

After 10 weeks of volunteer work, the study participants had lower levels of cholesterol and inflammatory proteins in the blood, as well as body mass index, than their peers from the control group.

01.03.2013
Grants and competitions

Study abroad: Presidential Scholarships

The Ministry of Education and Science announces an All-Russian open competition for Presidential scholarships for students and postgraduates of Russian universities to study abroad.

28.02.2013
New in Gerontology

Is it possible to prolong the life of neurons?

Neurons don't have their own biological clock that tells them it's time to die–the whole body serves them as such a clock. By influencing the environment of nerve cells, you can prolong their life without fear of disrupting their work.

28.02.2013
Various

Rare diseases without borders

In 2013, the International Day of Patients with Rare Diseases will be held under the slogan "Rare Diseases without Borders" (Rare Disorders without Borders).

28.02.2013
Cellular technologies

iPSCs are going to clinical trials

Japanese scientists in March 2013 will apply for a study on the use of induced pluripotent stem cells in age-related retinal dystrophy.

28.02.2013
Various

Interest in science in Russia is falling

If 68% of respondents were interested in science in 2007, then in 2011 their share fell to 54, and in 2013 – to 47%. A little consolation is that the most interesting for Russians (25% of respondents) were achievements in medicine…

27.02.2013
Various

Pharmacoeconomics of personalized medicine

The main advantages of personalized medicine are to reduce the costs of the healthcare system in the long term and improve the health of the population as a whole.

27.02.2013
Cellular technologies

ESK for "dummies"

Thousands of scientists are engaged in embryonic stem cells, because this field opens up excellent prospects for both science and clinical practice.

27.02.2013
Various

You will also get paid for taking cocaine

Volunteers will receive "reasonable financial compensation" for the time spent and expenses incurred. The aim of the work is to study which pathway cocaine and its metabolites take in the human body.

27.02.2013
Other life sciences

There are no "regeneration genes" in humans:(

Only newts (and possibly other amphibians) have hundreds of genes supposedly involved in the regeneration of damaged tissues. They are not found in the genomes of other vertebrates.

27.02.2013
Biomedicine

Anti-alcohol nanocapsules

Mice who ate alcohol with nanocapsules with enzymes that break down ethanol to acetic acid sobered up much faster than their drinking buddies from the control group. The authors of the work plan to add a third enzyme to the nanocapsules that removes the symptoms of a hangover.

26.02.2013
Biomedicine

"Mosquito net" for the flu virus

A new experimental drug prevents the flu virus from entering the cell, allowing the immune system to stop its spread through the body. The artificial origin of this neuraminidase inhibitor reduces the likelihood of resistant strains.

26.02.2013
Cellular technologies

Reprogrammed cells will help with diabetes

Diabetes can be cured by converting its own alpha cells, which are also part of the endocrine apparatus of the pancreas, into insulin-producing beta cells.

25.02.2013
Other life sciences

Stroke: a new strategy for protecting neurons

The human and mouse brains are protected from the effects of stroke by the hamartin protein, which causes neurons to "eat" part of themselves, receiving energy and oxygen, which allows them to live for several tens of minutes without access to blood.

25.02.2013
Other life sciences

Alzheimer's in vitro

Japanese researchers have studied the features of cortical neurons and astrocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells of patients with hereditary and sporadic Alzheimer's disease.

25.02.2013
Exhibitions and conferences

The World of Biotechnology 2013

On March 19-22, 2013, Moscow will host the VII Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: State and Prospects of Development" and the XI International Exhibition "World of Biotechnology 2013".

25.02.2013
Other life sciences

Rapamycin target: study continues

Scientists at the University of Basel have identified more than 300 new proteins that are targets of mTOR. In particular, the researchers found out exactly how the mTORC1 protein complex controls cell growth and division.

25.02.2013